December 19, 201015 yr Frankly, I've had it w/ REX2. The thing is highly over rated IMO, and I know it's my opinion. Sky & cloud textures are often very unrealistic looking to me. I tried again to find something realistic and not over the top in the OD textures, but gave up, and went once again back to FEX which IMO offers considerably more realistic cloud sets. I'm going to try their next version which I think is free for prior registered owners.I've uninstalled REX2 w/ OD 3 times now, and the last time lasted me a full month, before the same issue once again crops up: I bought & installed QW 757 which is decent at its current price, but now REX2 agains screws itself all up again and says I need to reconfigure my Vista firewall for in/out bound permissions for REX's weather generator. Deleting these as firewall exceptions and reenabling them doesn't cure the nonsense, so near as I can tell, only another uninstall/reinstall of the entire package will remedy this. This is not a Vista problem, nor and FSX problem, it's an REX weather engine problem, period. As with the last meltdown of REX2/OD, againt the thing constantly reloads weather, as in constant. I'm done with it, it's exceeded my bugginess tolerance, which I'll admit is thin. If perhaps you know of a quick trick to restore whatever the heck the installation of QW 757 did to REX2's weather engine, I'd love to hear it, but no more uninstall/reinstalls.Anyway, I'm only looking for a different weather generator. Textures from FEX are quite nice, and I do use some textures from REX2 so I'll leave it installed and just lose the weather, which was until now the primary reason I still use it. I did use HiFi's prior Active Sky product, but cloud layering and haze layer was poorly handled, and REX2's weather engine really was nice in terms of weather itself, but the bugginess is not tolerable any longer. I have no other problems with any other software in Vista 64, including all FSX addons and there are plenty.Thanks in advance for your insights,Noel Noel System: 9900X3D Noctua NH-D15 G2, MSI Pro 650-P WiFi, G.SKILL 64GB (2 x 32GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR5 6000, WD NVMe 2Tb x 1, Sabrent NVMe 2Tb x 1, RTX 4090 FE, Corsair RM1000W PSU, Win11 Home, LG Ultra Curved Gsync Ultimate 3440x1440, Phanteks Enthoo Pro Case, TCA Boeing Edition Yoke & TQ, Cessna Trim Wheel, RTSS Framerate Limiter w/ Front Edge Sync. Aircraft used in MSFS 2024: Fenix A320, Aerosoft CRJ, FBW, WT 787X, I-Fly 737 MAX 8, Citation Longitude.
December 19, 201015 yr I have REX2 OD installing the textures and Active Sky Evolution doing the actual weather generation. Looks amazing!
December 19, 201015 yr I think everyone knows the best weather engine is Active Sky, you hardly need a poll to determine that.Al Alan Bradbury Check out my youtube flight sim videos: Here
December 19, 201015 yr Another satisfied Active Sky Evolution weather generator + REX 2 texture user here. I agree some of the HD cloud texture sets can look a little like the clouds belong in a painting, but the 1024 texture clouds always look pretty realistic in my opinion. The other textures REX provides are a fantastic improvement over the default. Shane Gavin
December 19, 201015 yr ASE all the way. I have been a very satisfied Active Sky customer for at least 7 years (maybe longer). I do, however, use REX for textures. MSFS Premium Deluxe Edition; Windows 11 Pro, I9-9900k; Asus Maximus XI Hero; Asus TUF RTX3080TI; 32GB G.Skill Ripjaw DDR4 3600; 2X Samsung 1TB 970EVO; NZXT Kraken X63; Seasonic Prime PX-1000, LG 48" C1 Series OLED, Honeycomb Yoke & TQ, CH Rudder Pedals, Logitech G13 Gamepad
December 19, 201015 yr ASE SP2 + REX Overdrive textures except for clouds, I still prefer the "realistically dense" cloud theme from FEX KInd regards Jean-Paul I7 8700K / Fractal Design Celsius S24 watercooling / ASRock Z370 Extreme4 motherboard / Corsair 32GB 3200mhz DDR4 / INNO3D iChiLL GeForce GTX 1080 Ti X3 / Samsung SSD 960 EVO M.2 PCIe NVMe 500GB / Seasonic-SSR-850FX power supply / Fractal Design Define R5 Black case / AOC Q3279VWF 32″ 2560x1440 monitor / Benq GL2450 24″ 1920x1080 monitor / Track-IR 4
December 19, 201015 yr ASE SP2 + REX Overdrive textures except for clouds, I still prefer the "realistically dense" cloud theme from FEXSame combo for me. :( BTW, there's a small update for FEX I've discovered recently. You can get it here - PC Hardware: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D // Asus ROG Crosshair X870E HERO // 2x32Gb Corsair Dominator Titanium DDR5 6000MT/s CL30 // ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4090 OC Edition // 4Tb Corsair NVMe M.2 MP600 // Corsair 1600W PSU Samsung Odyssey Arc 55" curved 165 Hz monitor. - Simulator Hardware: VIRPIL Constellation Alpha Prime + VIRPIL VPC Universal Control Panel - #3 + MOZA AY210 Force Feedback Yoke + WINWING URSA MINOR 32 Throttle & PAC Metal + WINWING SKYWALKER Metal Rudder Pedals + WINWING Airbus FCU & EFIS + WINWING Boeing 3N PAP + WINWING MCDU-32 + WINWING PFP-4 + WINWING PFP 3-N + WINWING PFP-7.
December 19, 201015 yr other (open cloud) - quick start, low overhead, yet seems just as accurate as others.
December 19, 201015 yr Hi,ASE+REX textures is a winner.I have a question for ASE users. Is the SP2 worth it? Is there any performance loss or else? I am always wary when it comes to update things that already work fine. What do you think? My gallery: http://s1075.photobucket.com/albums/w430/yankeegolf/
December 19, 201015 yr Hi,ASE+REX textures is a winner.I have a question for ASE users. Is the SP2 worth it? Is there any performance loss or else? I am always wary when it comes to update things that already work fine. What do you think?No performance loss at all and no reason to worry updating. - PC Hardware: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D // Asus ROG Crosshair X870E HERO // 2x32Gb Corsair Dominator Titanium DDR5 6000MT/s CL30 // ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4090 OC Edition // 4Tb Corsair NVMe M.2 MP600 // Corsair 1600W PSU Samsung Odyssey Arc 55" curved 165 Hz monitor. - Simulator Hardware: VIRPIL Constellation Alpha Prime + VIRPIL VPC Universal Control Panel - #3 + MOZA AY210 Force Feedback Yoke + WINWING URSA MINOR 32 Throttle & PAC Metal + WINWING SKYWALKER Metal Rudder Pedals + WINWING Airbus FCU & EFIS + WINWING Boeing 3N PAP + WINWING MCDU-32 + WINWING PFP-4 + WINWING PFP 3-N + WINWING PFP-7.
December 19, 201015 yr other (open cloud) - quick start, low overhead, yet seems just as accurate as others.Same here, and best of all its FREE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Jim Wenham
December 19, 201015 yr Actually, if anything, I think the ASE service pack speeds it up a bit.Al Alan Bradbury Check out my youtube flight sim videos: Here
December 20, 201015 yr I noticed also that since applying the ASE Service pack, the depictions are somewhat more realistic looking. I almost took a screenie of a early morning flight from MSP to ATL that was visually very stunning and rich. Jim Atkins
December 20, 201015 yr Same here, and best of all its FREE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And? Personally I enjoy giving my money to people who have worked hard on software that gives me enjoyment.
December 20, 201015 yr Been using ActiveSky for years and upgraded to ASE last year and I use REx for textures.I'm happy with the combination. \Robert Hamlich/
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